Refugees and illegal-immigrant minors coming across the Texas border aren’t cheap, y’all. Which is why there’s a staggering $1.6 billion dollars set aside for “refugee and entrant assistance activities” in the giant omnibus spending bill making its way through Congress:
RT @mchalfant16: Congress awards $1,645,201,000 for ‘refugee and entrant assistance activities’ through 2018 https://t.co/RtfXxbHrYd
— Adam Kredo (@Kredo0) December 17, 2015
To which former adult film star Jenna Jameson has the absolute perfect response:
WTF?! https://t.co/yeXqBOmGeb
— Jenna Jameson (@jennajameson) December 17, 2015
Exactly, Jenna.
More from the Free Beacon on the $1.6 billion outlay:
Congress would award the massive check to the government just as the U.S. is experiencing a surge in arrivals of immigrant children at the southern border. Last week, federal agencies said they were opening two temporary shelters with 1,000 beds in South Texas to cope with the surge. A 400-bed shelter is also to be opened in Southern California.
“Out of an abundance of caution, the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services has begun a process to expand its temporary capacity to house unaccompanied children,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement last Monday.
The so-called omnibus spending bill would give $1,645,201,000 through fiscal year 2018 “for necessary expenses for refugee and entrant assistance activities authorized by section 414 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and section 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980, and for carrying out section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, section 235 of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (‘‘TVPA’’), section 203 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, and the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998,” according to its text released Tuesday.
Editor’s note: The title of this post has been edited to correct a typo.
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